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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin (Zygaenoidea) » Slug Caterpillar Moths (Limacodidae) » Lithacodes » Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth - Hodges#4665 (Lithacodes fasciola)

Species Lithacodes fasciola - Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth - Hodges#4665

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Zygaenoidea (Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer Moths and kin)
Family Limacodidae (Slug Caterpillar Moths)
Genus Lithacodes
Species fasciola (Yellow-shouldered Slug Moth - Hodges#4665)
Hodges Number
4665
Other Common Names
Ochre-winged Hag Moth
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lithacodes fasciola (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Limacodes fasciola Herrich-Schäffer 1854
Size
Wingspan: 18-25 mm (1)
TL: 10-13 mm (2)
Identification
Adult: Brown/orange FW crossed by white toothed PM line. Dark subterminal line curves from PM line to outer margin. (1)
Range
Eastern North America - Distribution & Flight-period Chart (3)
Season
Univoltine on Block Island, RI, with adults flying mainly mid-June through late July with rare later emergences through mid-August.(4)
Food
Deciduous trees and shrubs, including apple, beech, elm, oak, and willow. (2)

Dyar recorded on "wild cherry, white birch, bayberry, dogwood, chestnut, sugar plum, oak, linden, maple, beech, hop hornbeam, hickory, and huckleberry" (5)
See Also
Lithacodes gracea
Print References
Covell, p. 409 & plate 55 #23 (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group – images of live and pinned adults (3)
BOLD Systems - images of DNA supported specimens (6)
Moths of North Dakota – species page
Works Cited
1.Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Moths
Charles V. Covell. 1984. Houghton Mifflin Company.
2.Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie. 2012. Houghton Mifflin.
3.North American Moth Photographers Group
4.Block Island Moths
5.The Life-Histories of the New York Slug Caterpillars
Harrison G. Dyar. 1895. Journal of the New York Entomological Society.
6.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Mike Boone on 28 May, 2005 - 2:19pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, Robert Lord Zimlich, Blocky
Last updated 16 June, 2022 - 2:03am

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